![]() ![]() ![]() Author Jean Craighead George was raised in a family of naturalists and spent a summer observing wolves in Barrow, Alaska. On the plus side, I love the interaction with the wolves. But the more time Miyax spends around the wolves, living off the land, and the closer she comes geographically to civilization, the more she wonders which path she should take. The pen pal has invited Miyax/Julie to come live with her family in a beautiful white house with a pink bedroom. The reader soon learns that Miyax is trying to make her way to the coast, where she can hop a ship to San Francisco, the home of her pen pal (who knows Miyax by the name Julie). Hungry and desperate, she attempts to communicate with a wolf pack, ingratiating herself to them until they accept her as one of their own. ![]() When the novel opens, Miyax is lost on Alaska’s North Slope, having run away from home. Julie of the Wolves is the story of a 13-year-old Eskimo girl in Alaska named Miyax who is torn between the “old ways” of the traditional Eskimo people and the new ways that are taking hold of the larger communities in Alaska. ![]()
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